Third release candidate of Git for Windows 2.x

New Features

• Comes with Git 2.4.4
• The POSIX-to-Windows path mangling can now be turned off by setting the MSYS_NO_PATHCONV environment variable. This even works for individual command lines: MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 cmd /c dir /x will list the files in the current directory along with their 8.3 versions.

Bug fixes

• git-bash.exe no longer changes the working directory to the user's home directory.
• Git can now clone into a drive root, e.g. C:\.
• For backwards-compatibility, redirectors are installed into /bin/bash.exe and /bin/git.exe, e.g. to support SourceTree and TortoiseGit better.
• When using core.symlinks = true while cloning repositories with symbolic links pointing to directories, git status no longer shows bogus modifications.

Second release candidate of Git for Windows 2.x

This is the second release candidate of Git for Windows 2.x, based on Git 2.4.3.

Please see the release notes for details.

First release candidate of Git for Windows 2.x

This is the first release candidate of Git for Windows 2.x.

It is available in four different versions: 32-bit & 64-bit, regular and portable application. If in doubt, try the regular 64-bit version.

Please give this release candidate a thorough workout and report bugs at https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues.

v2.4.1.windows.1: Git for Windows 2.4.1

Relative to Git for Windows 2.4.0 release 2, the following changed:

- improved support for console windows other than the default Windows
  console window (`git push https://` can ask interactively for a
  password again)

v2.4.0.windows.2: Git for Windows 2.4.0 release 2

Since 2.4.0 release 1, the following bugs were fixed:

- `git pull` prompts for a password correctly in MinTTY

- `git blame` can now deal with CRLF better

- Git for Windows' `git-bash.exe` can be asked to show a console
  explicitly

v2.4.0.windows.1: Git for Windows 2.4.0

The only change relative to Git for Windows 2.3.7 apart from a rebase
onto Git 2.4.0 is that the git-wrapper learned how to launch the Git
Bash with an entirely new console, fixing a regression that was revealed
by a recent update of the msys2-runtime.

v2.3.7.windows.1: Git for Windows 2.3.7

The biggest changes since 2.3.6 release 2 are outside of Git's source code:
users can override their home directory using the HOME environment variable
again.

Git for Windows developer preview: 2.3.6

• Much smoother interaction with the mintty terminal emulator
• A couple of fixes to the Windows-specific Git wrapper
• Respects the newly introduced Windows-wide %PROGRAMDATA%\Git\config configuration

v2.3.5.windows.8: Git for Windows 2.3.5 release 8

The only user visible change since release 7 is that the Git wrapper
will now refuse to use $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH if it points to a
non-existing directory (this can happen if it points to a network drive
that just so happens to be Disconnected Right Now).

Fourth developers' preview: Git for Windows v2.3.5

This update fixes encoding issues in Git Bash and keeps the TMP environment variable intact.

Due to this issue in MSys2, we sadly had to downgrade the nettle package manually.